http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2012/02/hl-bear-hunt/ The Math Factor Podcast Site Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:52:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2012/02/hl-bear-hunt/comment-page-1/#comment-995 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:27:15 +0000 http://mathfactor.uark.edu/?p=1404#comment-995 Well, not quite– the puzzle we ask is a variation on the older one that leads to the shooting of a polar bear. The surprise here is that there are other solutions, which lead only to hypothetical bear deaths.

]]> http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2012/02/hl-bear-hunt/comment-page-1/#comment-992 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:09:31 +0000 http://mathfactor.uark.edu/?p=1404#comment-992 The point is that the North Pole is the only place you can shoot a bear in those conditions – the Antarctic doesn’t have Polar Bears.

]]> http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2012/02/hl-bear-hunt/comment-page-1/#comment-982 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:32:31 +0000 http://mathfactor.uark.edu/?p=1404#comment-982 [spoiler] Perhaps the one of the answers to the bear thing involves being somewhere close enough to the South Pole so that after going one mile south, going one mile east would result in the hunter going all the way around the Earth n times, where n is a natural number. I don’t know if many bears live near the South Pole, though. [/spoiler]

]]> http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2012/02/hl-bear-hunt/comment-page-1/#comment-980 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:41:15 +0000 http://mathfactor.uark.edu/?p=1404#comment-980 [spoiler] all points on the surface of the earth that are 1/ k(2 * pi)  miles away from the south pole.
k = 1,2,3,4,5….
ie. all points that remain the same points after the “walk one mile east” transformation.
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